Pineal Parenchyma

Preferred Label : Pineal Parenchyma;

NCIt definition : The tissue of the pineal gland. The pineal gland is a small reddish-gray body, about 8 mm. in length which lies in the depression between the superior colliculi. It is attached to the roof of the third ventricle near its junction with the mid-brain. It develops as an outgrowth from the third ventricle of the brain. The pineal parenchyma consists of follicles lined by epithelium and enveloped by connective tissues. It produces and secretes melatonin.;

Details

Origin ID

C41834;

UMLS CUI

C1519088;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Nervous System [NCIt concept]
- Pineal Gland [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- pineal parenchyma [UBERON concept]
Contains anatomical structure(s)
- Pineocyte [NCIt concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Tissue [UMLS semantic type]
is_normal_tissue_origin_of_disease
- Adult Pineal Parenchymal Cell Neoplasm [NCIt concept]
- Adult Pineoblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Adult Pineocytoma [NCIt concept]
- Childhood Pineal Parenchymal Cell Neoplasm [NCIt concept]
- Childhood Pineal Parenchymal Tumor of Intermediate Differentiation [NCIt concept]
- Childhood Pineoblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Pineal Parenchymal Cell Neoplasm [NCIt concept]
- Pineal Parenchymal Tumor of Intermediate Differentiation [NCIt concept]
- Pineoblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Pineoblastoma Molecular Subtypes [NCIt concept]
- Pineoblastoma miRNA Processing Altered 1 [NCIt concept]
- Pineoblastoma miRNA Processing Altered 2 [NCIt concept]
- Pineoblastoma, MYC/FOXR2-Activated [NCIt concept]
- Pineoblastoma, RB1-Altered [NCIt concept]
- Pineocytoma [NCIt concept]
- Recurrent Childhood Pineoblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Recurrent Pineal Parenchymal Cell Neoplasm [NCIt concept]
- Stage M0 Pineoblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Stage M1 Pineoblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Stage M2 Pineoblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Stage M3 Pineoblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Stage M4 Pineoblastoma [NCIt concept]

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